Comment on If reincarnation exists, suicide could make things much much worse.

• Isolde@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Sorry, where did I say you were?

  Actually, you and I are saying the same thing. There isn’t a lot you control about yourself. Did you even read the argument in question?

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  • rockerface@lemmy.cafe ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Your argument - if I understood it correctly - was that I’m not my brain because I’m not in complete control of my brain. But then I’m not in complete control over what most people would agree is part of my identity.

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    • Isolde@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Well, you aren’t. You didn’t chose most things about yourself, you just think you did as to not cause existential crisis. Your favorite foods, your sexuality, what you think is funny, what smells like perfume and what smells like poop; all has very little to do with anything you consciously chose. Most of the things I mentioned are decided before you’re born.

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      • rockerface@lemmy.cafe ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        That is true. But it also doesn’t prove that I’m not defined by my brain and memories. I didn’t chose to have most of my memories either.

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